Letter: Opposition to logging in Walker Creek
To Whom It May Concern,
I am writing as both a proud Carrier First Nations woman and the founder of North Waters Wildcraft, a small business deeply rooted in the land, plants, and traditional knowledge of Northern British Columbia. I am strongly opposed to BC Timber Sales’ plans to auction off and log forest blocks within the Walker Creek Wilderness.
This wilderness is one of the last intact ecosystems in the Upper Fraser — a place of incredible biodiversity, cultural importance, and ecological function. As a forager and medicine maker, I depend on pristine, healthy forests to ethically harvest plants that have been used for generations in traditional healing and food systems. The Walker Creek area is not just trees — it is medicine, knowledge, food, and spirit.
Even a single road or cutblock would permanently alter this slow-growing, structurally rich forest system. These areas cannot be “restored” in a meaningful way within our lifetimes. The impacts on biodiversity, wildlife corridors, and the already-threatened Mountain Caribou would be irreversible. Logging here would violate federal-provincial conservation agreements and contradict the Province’s stated shift to a new paradigm of forest stewardship.
Walker Creek also holds immense value for wildlife and aquatic life, including chinook salmon and bull trout. This is a critical habitat corridor for species like grizzly bear, wolverine, and fisher. Many of these are already facing declining populations due to fragmented habitat.
As a First Nations woman whose livelihood is tied to the health of the land, I urge you to withdraw any plans to log the Walker Wilderness. The benefits of preservation far outweigh the limited short-term economic gain from logging. Future generations deserve to inherit a living, breathing forest — not a legacy of clearcuts and broken ecosystems.
Respectfully,
Kyle Moffat
North Waters Wildcraft
Prince George, B.C.
